I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.
Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning.
My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
The flapper has charm, good looks, good clothes, intellect and a healthy point of view.
A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.
Show dancing stood very well on its own a long time ago with dancers like Bill Robinson and Marilyn Miller.
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
I used to love the '20s.
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
I am embarrassingly 1920s in style.
